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NFL Backs Off THG Suspensions.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003

By Gregg Bell, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 21--ALAMEDA, Calif.--The NFL blinked while staring into the increasingly blinding light of tetrahyrdogestrinone Thursday.

Commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced that the NFL will not suspend any player this season who tests positive for THG from samples provided before Oct. 6.

Those players will be subject only to unspecified "discipline and reasonable-cause testing," Tagliabue said in a memorandum sent to all 32 teams.

Tagliabue cited doubt as to "whether suspensions based upon pre-October 6 tests could be imposed during the 2003 season with the requisite competitive fairness for all 32 teams."

The samples of Raiders Bill Romanowski,...

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